I came to know about eGmat through one of my friend, an ex-student of eGmat, who scored 700+ on “D day”. Convinced with his feedback about the course, I decided to enrol into the program and, trust me, I never regretted my decision.
Strong determination and learnings from the course have helped me to move my verbal score from 19 to 32 on the test day.

To keep it short, I will share a few key notes:

1. Well-structured and researched course that helps you to understand key concepts via short videos. Provides quizzes at the end of each chapter to test your understanding of the concept . You can further enrich your learnings though diagnostic test in a timed environment. (I have recently tried verbal scholaranium and really liked quality of the questions. It’s close to patterns followed in past Official questions. Planning to complete it by month end.)

2. Focus is upon imbibing the concept of pre-thinking and understanding the meaning before approaching a problem. It took me some time to develop the habit but if you want to avoid silly mistakes and save time, then this would work like a charm.

3. Webinar are engaging and you should attend them as many time as possible. Every time you will discover something new. Mentors guide you to put your learnings from the course into practice and solve official questions by using eGmat approach.

4. Excellent platform to interact and learn from the mentors, who have already championed the game and know the rules. It would be tough to mention all the names but few names that I would like to mention are “Neeti”, “Payal” and “Chiranjeev”. I thank all of them for their patience and guidance during the initials days of enrolment and helping me to get my basics right.

In short, if you are a non-native speaker then eGmat is the place for you to ace verbal section. You can never go wrong with it.

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I would like to share my experience with eGMAT verbal live prep course. First, a brief about myself. I am a working professional with a normal job. I end up spending 11 -12 hours out of my house on a normal working day. I normally study 1 hour in the morning and about 1-2 hours in the evening. Thus, I end up doing most of my preparation on the weekend.
English is not a native language for me and I consider myself decently good in quant section. I had realized early on that verbal may be a challenge for me. I attended the free strategy session and decided to focus on quant and hone my skills. I took eGMAT free Quant quiz and could attempt only 17/20 questions but could get 16 on them correct. I tried SC and got only 30%. I evaluated a few other courses and read many reviews online and decided to join eGMAT verbal live.
Now, I spent a lot of time on SC. I found the course very good. All sections detailed concepts from scratch. I followed the routine diligently taking up all sessions, and attempting quizzes before live sessions. And I thought I got a hang of it. I took an ability quiz and got 47%. I got a shock. I sought help from eGMAT guys and they helped me realize my weak areas (although I think the process and response time could have been faster). I worked on weak areas, revised the course once again and most importantly practiced the entire OG again focussing on my weak areas. This time I got 78%. Oops, I missed the 80% mark by 2%.
I have covered CR and RC section as well and scored 67% and 70% in first go itself. I am listing the best features that help me.
1. Small section quizzes. These small feedbacks really help you see your weak areas. At first, I took note of the low scores, read the section again and moved on. But only after completing SC course I could realize that a weak area in the foundation could pull down all related areas.
2. Ability Quiz- The question bank is good with detailed explanations and discussion on most common errors made in the peer group. I have learnt a lot from these.
3. Live sessions- It’s a class room experience online. I like the interface and the way sessions are conducted. Now, you cannot expect to get 100% out of every second. But I would say I really need to interact live with people and see how I perform in a peer group. That keeps me motivated.
Overall, I would recommend eGMAT verbal live to anyone looking to augment their preparation in verbal.
I am in final stages on my preparation and would be focussing on weak areas of Verbal, getting back into practice on quant. I have also marked some days for IR and AWA. I have scheduled my test next month and hoping for the best.

I hope my experience would be useful.
Akhil

eGMAT Verbal Live Prep- Best Features Reviewed

This is an extension of the review of eGMAT Verbal Live Prep that I had written 3 months ago when I was still preparing for the GMAT. Now that I have taken the GMAT and Scored 740 (Q51, V39), I would like to review the best features of the course and how it helped me to improve from V35 to V39 (first attempt to second attempt).

Link to earlier review --> http://gmatclub.com/reviews/comments/e-gmat-verbal-live-prep-345350838
Link to my GMAT experience --> http://gmatclub.com/forum/from-650-to-740-what-made-the-difference-220133.html#p1696011

Let me come straight to the point, the best features
1. Depth of SC course content- SC being my weakest area, I read many reviews and posts on how to improve on SC. After my first attempt, I knew that I need help to improve beyond a certain point. eGMAT Verbal Live prep did just that. I have spent majority of my course time (almost 4 months on SC). I had to go through the content multiple times to digest some concepts.

2. Focussed study and Focussed testing- This is another area on which the eGMAT course does an excellent job. Every course has individual tests and practice quizzes. You score is reflective of your understanding. I realized the importance of this aspect after I finished all the content once and tried a scholaranium test. I scored only 47% :(. Although, this was an improvement from earlier score of 30%, this was a huge disappointment. After identifying the weak areas, I had to go through the complete course once more and multiple times through the weak areas to get a score of 80% on scholaranium.

3. Internal Forums- I have always appreciated the discussion on GMATClub on different questions and get insight into nuances involved. You get a breadth of knowledge and different opinions and perspectives to the same problem. However, they are sometimes more confusing due to conflictual information available as people debate over a certain question. Internal forums play a vital role in providing detailed and focussed solutions. Many times, I could just search a question and get answer to a doubt since it had already been discussed.

4. Focus on self-study- While this is true for all courses that you would take in life, this is especially true for the GMAT. It is a test YOUR ABILITY, and you can gain only little if you depend on somebody’s effort to teach you content. eGMAT instructors have always stressed on completing all modules and individual quizzes before the live interaction. Believe me, you don’t need more contact time. But its important the you are prepared to extract the most out of the live session.

5. Pre-thinking, the most helpful tool- If I have to tell the one most important technique learnt, it is pre-thinking. Although, I learnt it in CR after SC, I later applied it in RC and SC as well. The basic concept revolves around your ability to understand the question, identify the error (logical gap, assumption, error in SC, etc) and correct the error without looking at the answer choices. It may seem to be a difficult task, but that’s the way to go. Think about it, if you cant identify the error, how could you correct the same. The answer choices are designed to be confusing. Imagine what happens if you jump to answer choices with partial understanding. You could attend one of the free sessions on Pre-thinking by eGMAT.

6. Reading Strategies and Width of Practice passages on RC- Another weak area is RC passages from social sciences. While my accuracy was 80-90% on technology and life science essays, it was less than 50% on passages from social sciences. On certain difficult passages, I could get only 1 out of 4 correct, this too without timing myself. Reading Strategies learnt helped me a lot in two aspects. First, I could read and understand passages from different areas without the need of any background, even to understand the meaning of an alien term. Second, not to get stuck on details and focus on the bigger picture (the main point).

7. Scholaranium- This is an amazing platform that focusses on testing ability rather than accuracy. It tracks you performance and has multiple useful features such as sections quizzes and you could also customize a quiz to your needs. This allows you to work on you weak areas and test your improvement.

8. Expert Support- Last but not the least, there were multiple times in my long association with eGMAT when I needed advice on how to proceed with my preparation. Apart from all technical help, experts at eGMAT have given good support when I needed the most. Specifically, for somebody who took a long time to improve on SC, they have continuously tried to assess objectively and weak areas and helped me improve.

I hope this review would help people struggling with verbal.
Akhil

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I am an engineering graduate with decent quant skills. I have given GMAT once and scored 47 on quant. This has made me realise that quant cant be taken for granted. I was on a search for a quant course that would guarantee a jump and zeroed in on egmat after going through their verbal section.

the concepts are explained in a simple and efficient manner the tricks to solving the questions are something to learn. Overall the material is good with sufficient questions of varied difficulty to test your mettle. After going through the weak areas i have managed to score a consistent 50 in the mocks i am yet to give my GMAT.

I would recommend anyone to attend this course and bet that they should be able to score at their 90th percentile.

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I think that one of the key secrets to achieve 700+ score on the GMAT for people who doesn’t have the natural ability for standardized tests is perseverance.
I have been studying for a while, most of the time with OG and with resources from big brands. I took classes, and private tutoring, but the improvements were not there. It was until I hear about E-Gmat that my scores start improving. I was first skeptical, so I decided to take the free video sessions for SC, and after that I understood that E-Gmat method was ideal for me. I first subscribed to the Verbal Live Prep and got access to Live Sessions for each of the sections, and a huge number of explanatory videos that where very helpful to improve my comprehension and abilities of specific topics. After understanding that my issue was not the time given for each question, but my gaps in the approach and concepts, I finally untapped my potential on the Verbal section, improving on my mock tests from an original V24 to V40.
For the Quant section, since I am an engineer, I decided not to follow their method, and stuck on self-practice of problems on the OG.
After a bunch of mock tests from different resources, I got to the point of getting the 700+ results I was expecting. So I decided to present the GMAT at the end of 2015. I was very confident of getting a high score, but unfortunately my quant skills abandoned me that day, and even though my verbal results were very strong, I did not get the 700+ result I was expecting.
Therefore after a break of studying, I decided to try again, but this time I got the subscription to the Quant sessions on E-gmat during this 2nd quarter of 2016. I am planning to take the exam in two months, I am confident that now that I am using the same resources for my Verbal and Quant, I will achieve my target score.
I found the e-gmat method as the most logical and easy to follow when compared to other big brands. Additionally, I like that it has a very well re-designed and interactive webpage that allows you to easily keep track of your progress, and keep engaged and motivated to continue studying. Finally, its content is very complete, explanations to OG questions are very detail, instructors are very responsive to student questions, and customer service makes you feel as special and unique as you can be.

Due to this, in my opinion E-gmat is a great resource and might be enough to get well prepared for the GMAT

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SC has been a problem for me. E-GMAT approach to logic is sound for not only the test prep but also for day to day usage. I had already referred few other recommended sources but they really did not help me in improving my SC accuracy rate significantly. I found many reviews for e-gmat's SC course that convinced me to sign up for the course.The most important thing about e-gmat is that: they claim their course is designed for non-natives. This fact drew my attention. I finally took the e-gmat Verbal Live Pre course. The interface is very clean; topics are well arranged. The interface tracks your progress. The explanation to each question is explained very methodologically. I really appreciate their efforts in building this excellent platform.

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October 2015 – V19
March 2016 – V29 (After e-GMAT preparation)

I am a non native English speaker and have been prepping for the GMAT for a quite sometime from august 2015. I took my first official GMAT test last october and the outcome is as you could see above. I am not yet done and will write my 3rd very soon. I started my preparation with the OG and going through tens of forum posts on GMAT Club. However, by october 2015 I was ready, or so I felt. The preparation material I have used were Manhatten prep, GMAT club test, Powerprep and GMAC prep. I was quite confident of getting a 700+ score as the mock tests were giving me quite assuring results. However as it turned out to be the actual score in verbal was a disaster. I couldn't find any explanation to my results as I thought memorising the rules will make me successful in answering verbal questions. I find there is no shortage in these book itself, however, later I came to believe that the key is to understand the question and apply the correct approach in answering the GMAT questions.

As I couldn't sort out the reason for my poor score I was undecided as to my next move in Verbal. Frustrated and unwilling to give up I wrote a review in GMAT club forum to understand what actually went wrong. Thats when I was contacted by Rajat explaining about the e-GMAT verbal live prep course and its success among non native speakers. At first I was reluctant but later decided to invest in Verbal live prep after attending some live preparation session as I saw the difference in how the verbal session was approached. Now that I realize the values that the courses offered and I've been through others', I think I can provide my thoughts into E-GMAT verbal preparation course.

- I should say the SC course is brilliant ! It took me some time to understand how to go about the preparation. But do get the preparation schedule as proscribed and stick to it. The course material is laid out in such fashion that it starts from scratch with some basic grammer rules to topic by topic approach. Each topic is arranged systematically in small chapters from basic to advanced level each containing pre-quiz, then concept explanation and post assessment quiz followed by E-GMAT practice questions and OG questions.

The valuable bit I found apart from answeting the questions correctly is the explanation as to why the other answer choices are incorrect. This has helped me a lot in testing my understanding as well as reinforcing my foundations. This is especially valuable for non-English speakers to approach the questions systematically and get the right answer.

- CR course though needed a different approach in answering the questions I found the e-GMAT 3 step approach of understanding the argument, prethinking and selecting the answer choice as a valuable tool. Especially the prethinking was an eye opener as this has focused my thought process in selecting the correct choice.

Though some of the questions were way out, the underlying course material for CR was good trying to focalise on question types and how to go about solving them. The Quiz platform is brilliant with brilliant analytics and also the choice to pick easy, moderate and hard questions.

- RC course is also very good. I started out as not as strong but now these are my comfortable subjects. E-gmat did a good job but practice and practice until it makes you comfortable.

e-GMAT's staff were keen to get the questions answered and correct any gap in the understanding. As well as the e-GMAT support team response are always quick and helpful. Overall, I'm completely satisfied with both the courses and I hope to return here with my success story.

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During 1st attempt,I have used Manhattan, Kaplan and Official guides for exam preparation.I couldn't perform well in the exam and my weaknesses were exposed especially in the Verbal section. Later, I've taken a long break without considering a next try for couple of years.However, I have been considering for a while to take GMAT again and finally decided at the end of 2015.

I was looking for Verbal courses and read reviews on GMATCLUB for each course provider. Without any hesitation, I signed up for e-GMAT Verbal course and they organized very well with the better content, at end of each topic testing the acquired skills, abilitiy quizzes and detailed explanation presented for all the questions on the platform. One best thing about the course, it comes with a better testing platform that features moderate to complex questions and explanations. I believe this course is a very valuable especially for those who are non-native English speakers and also weak in verbal section.

- SC course is designed structurally, nice approach used to tackle SC Questions by understanding the meaning of the sentence and eliminating wrong choices very easily. Concepts are taught at right pace in detail, provided better explanation and testing the skills with the help of Quizzes.If any concepts/explanations aren't clear, experts clear the doubts that are posted on the forum.

- CR course is very good with better explanations how to pre-think assumptions, understanding the nuances of argument and apply necessary skills to tackle variety of CR Questions.Quizzing platform is amazing with a mixture very hard to moderate questions and explanation for each question is awesome.

- RC course is alright with the lectures and ability tests.
- IR course is exhaustive and covered all possible types of Questions that may appear in official GMAT exam.Now, I've mastered this area with the help of e-GMAT Verbal course.Live sessions are amazing with better Q&A sessions and good interaction with the experts.

As per my experience with e-GMAT course, I've learnt detailed concepts, solid understanding of each section and equipped with the skills/tricks to perform well in the exam. I recommend this course for the aspirants who might be considering to take GMAT and also aiming for a best score.

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If you are a non-native and dream to be in the Elite club of 700+ GMAT you are certainly Hands down in the right place.

Let me give you a brief background on my profile before I move on with my story. I am a non-native working full-time as an Design Engineer at one of the fortune 500 companies in the Bay area. With the market going side ways in the technical domain and the stress of carving a successful career moving on required me to have some new and different skills added to my profile in order to attain my career goals, I decided to go for my MBA. As we all know GMAT is the 1st step in the process for doing so. Highly motivated and with an aim to beat the GMAT, I started my Gmat journey with just official sources. I booked the date and started preparing with the OG. Being a Math fanatic I was feeling OK with Maths and that's what reflected on my real GMAT as well where I got a 49 with less than a week of review of Maths just from OG (If Aiming 700+, I personally feel we should target 50/51). I did a lot of mistakes in my plan of action when I wrote the test for the very 1st time in April 2013. I knew from the get go that Verbal is my problem and what I did was I tried too hard and didn't followed a well laid out plan to attack my weakest link. After 3 weeks into the preparation I came across e-gmat on the GMATCLUB and I signed up for their free trial and I was very upset that why I didn't signed up for such a great tool from DAY 1. I will put the details of the course in the later paragraphs but let me tell you this course is the key in your GMAT preparation along with a disciplined schedule.
I reviewed the SC in the 3 weeks I had and some portion of CR and RC and wrote the test. I got a 640, which I know is not something that one should be proud of. But I can totally say that in such a small time and with just 1 thorough review of SC from their curriculum boosted my score to 50 points as in my mocks I was on the borderline for 600. So e-gmat definitely helped.

After my 1st GMAT attempt I was certainly disappointed and wanted to score better but life had something else planned for me. I was forced to relocate at a different location with more responsibilities added to my profile at work. So GMAT took a backseat. I tried to prepare on an ON/OFF basis but never took it very seriously. As I work in such an environment where we work based off deadlines, I decided to book a date for my 2nd attempt end of June 2016 and get back on with my preparation with a timeline and a plan to get a score of 730+.

I did tried other companies but by far e-gmat is hands down the best. E-gmat language is simple and easy to understand and retain. I recently reviewed some concepts from another company and believe me I was able to retain what I reviewed in 2013 regarding the same concepts and not the ones that I reviewed less than a week ago. So I have decided to get back with e-gmat and just the official guides and That's it!

With 6 weeks to GMAT and this plan I believe I will be able to attain the dream score I want.

Why e-gmat is the Best?

1- SC is well laid out. they have a method that you need to hard wire to your brain. just as with formulas in Maths, it should come natural with an SC question that you need to understand the meaning of sentence - identify pharses/clauses review errors and the follow the Process of Elimination. It's hard in the beginning to force yourself follow the process but it works. mastery is the Key to success. The explanations of every single OG question is detailed and help students see clearly why each answer choice is right or wrong. If you think 2 answers are very close and can both be correct, e-gmat would show you why one of them is *obviously* the wrong choice. For e-gmat, there is NO guessing involved.

2 - CR and RC courses are great. I think CR defines the different buckets of questions and helps you understand every question type and the plan of attack for the same. As I didn't had much time to spent with e-gmat during my first GMAT preparation in 2013, I did took a couple of things from both CR and RC that helped me get a better understanding of different CR and RC question. Most important one being PRE-THINKING! I really look forward to work with CR/RC thoroughly in the next attempt.

3-Quant - I didn't opted for the course but I did used the trial version and it looks very thorough. Again Practice, Practice and more Practice!

4- Overall layout/customer Service - I like the way the is course set up with the concepts, quizzes, lectures, apply to GMAT questions, and OG questions list. It prepares you mentally and force to bring a certain habit in practice. GMAT is a test of consistency. when you are running out of time which you will then you don't want to experiment with a new way to answer question. its good to have a strategy to deal with questions when you don't have time which you will master through diligent practice and discipline.

E-gmat customer service is killer! I never waited more than 24 hours to have my questions answered. They are out there trying to help you attain your goal and they know how important it is in such a time sensitive game.

I will definitely recommend every GMAT aspirant to sign up for e-gmat and really put your best effort in your preparation. Everything is planned for you all you have to do is just follow what's there in their curriculum and study plans and you will definitely Succeed!

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I'm a non-native speaker and English was my third language until higher secondary, although it was the medium of instruction through out. I'm a retaker and first appeared for GMAT in January 2011. My quant score was decent enough (Q48), but verbal was a absolute shocker (v25). Inadequate practice tests, time management, test taking ability, fatigue - all played a role . I knew something was wrong even with my verbal concepts/prep.
I wanted to retake exam in a month or so, but let's just say life happened and I found happiness in a new job, cricket world cup and the likes. Fast forward to June 2014, I started researching on various forums for the right prep material and ordered a bunch of books - MGMAT SC, PowerScore CR & MGMAT RC. Over the next two months or so, I completed reviewing all three books. This task was overwhelming to say the least, considering the fact that the content in these books is too dense with little emphasis on application beyond theory.

So I decided to try something different and after reading so many reviews, I was convinced that if I were to join a course, it'd to be e-GMAT one. I joined e-GMAT Verbal Live Prep course and never looked back or doubted my decision. Every single day I'd learn something new and would be amazed at so many elements of e-GMAT. Their SC course is a gold mine and pretty much covers all aspects of GMAT SC. I found a new meaning for 'meaning' (e-GMATers would relate with me here). CR course promotes 'pre-thinking', which became fundamental in how I approach CR and for that matter even RC. e-GMAT's process is methodical and although it may seem a li'l lengthier, with practice one would see continuous results.

So impressed I was with Verbal live prep that when e-GMAT launched Quant live prep, I quickly jumped on it. It made perfect sense since I got Q48 last time and their quant course provides 2 point guarantee for Q48. e-GMAT's instructors are top notch and are very passionate in making student's successful in their prep. Special mention about e-GMAT support team whose response is always quick, thorough and super helpful. Overall, I'm completely satisfied with both the courses and I hope to return here with my success story.

Update 5/22/16:
I've scored 680 and a 37 on my verbal. Since then I've been working on my Executive MBA applications at top b-schools and got accepted into Kellogg, Booth, Haas to name a few. I'll be joining Booth next month :-) None of this would have been possible without this course and the awesome team at e-gmat!!

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When I started preparing for GMAT, I thought completing Official guide would be sufficient for getting a decent score. However I was proved wrong when I scored a meagre V28 on the GMAT. I have always felt confident in quant but being a non native, Verbal on GMAT has always been my Achilles heel. I was contemplating on taking up formal online coaching and that is when one of my friend directed me to e-gmat. I immediately enrolled into the Verbal Live course and it helped me immensely. I improved from V28 to V34 after I took e-gmat Verbal Live prep course. I have not yet got my desired score and would be writing the GMAT again. I am now using the e-gmat Verbal Live course as a refresher for my revisions and I hope that I can get within the periphery of my target score when I write the GMAT again.

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